Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
Preparing to Write a Story
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Preparing to Write a Story
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll demonstrate how I prepare to write a story based on a particular experience I had with some dogs, and I'll suggest ways to choose an incident from your own life to shape into a story.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Preparing to Write a Story, which is part of the Domestika online course: Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience . Learn how to write stories that captivate readers by building a narrative with elements of fiction.
Partial transcription of the video
“Preparing to Write a Story In this lesson we'll look at preparing to write a new story for your final project. What we've done up until now is to look at creating a story from scratch, at the thread of the story and at the importance of writing and writing and writing until something emerges, looking at how we can use brainstorming, and also how we work with distractions and how we get help from outside, whether it's through art or going for a walk and doing something different. What I'd like to do in this lesson is to look at how do we work with a story we already know, so we have a kind o...”
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Course summary for: Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
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Areas
Creative Writing, Creativity, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storytelling, Writing
Shaun Levin
A course by Shaun Levin
Shaun Levin is a writer and creative writing teacher from South Africa who is based in Madrid. He also lived and wrote for many years in Tel Aviv and London. His writing has always been prompted by reading and closely examining the books he loves. He went on to study literature at university and soon started to get his stories published in magazines and anthologies. His passion for books has led him to a parallel career in bookbinding and producing handmade books.
Shaun has over twenty years of experience teaching creative writing in colleges, schools, art galleries, and other settings. He has published several novels and short story collections, including Alone with a Man in a Room, Seven Sweet Things, and Snapshots of The Boy, as well as three guides for writers taking on book-length projects, The Writing Notebooks. Today, Shaun continues to teach creative writing and work on his next novel and collection of short stories.
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